{"id":52039,"date":"2022-02-13T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52039"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:00:24","slug":"trump-baselessly-accuses-hillary-clinton-of-a-capital-crime-and-wishes-he-could-put-her-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52039","title":{"rendered":"Trump Baselessly Accuses Hillary Clinton of a Capital Crime and Wishes He Could Put Her to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the most wretched of Donald Trump’s loathsome personality flaws is his rancid vengefulness and compulsion with punishing anyone he deems insufficiently loyal. He has lashed out viciously at his perceived enemies, including steadfast conservative Republicans like former VP Mike Pence and Sen. Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/strong>, and flagrantly biased right-wing media such as Fox News and Newsmax<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Hillary<\/p>\n

Escalating the hysterics for which Trump is famous, on Saturday he released a statement that included his explicit yearning to see Hillary Clinton executed for alleged crimes that he utterly failed to identify or even peripherally grasp. The statement was tweeted<\/a>, as usual, by his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill<\/a><\/strong>, Liz Harrington. It concerned a recent filing by special counsel John Durham that Trump completely misunderstood”<\/p>\n

“The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Virtually all of the reporting on this filing by John Durham (not “Robert”<\/em> as Trump mistakenly said) is coming from hardcore right-wing Internet trolls such as Breitbart, Infowars, RedState, and, of course, Harrington, who has tweeted about it eight<\/s> nine<\/s> ten<\/s> twenty times since yesterday.<\/p>\n

Trump’s assertion that the filing provides “indisputable evidence”<\/em> that he was spied on is wholly fictional<\/a><\/strong>. Durham doesn’t even make that assertion in the filing. The gist of the document relates to allegations that an attorney who at one time represented the Clinton campaign didn’t properly disclose that relationship. The references to spying were merely the collection of Internet IP addresses and Domain Service Names (DNS) that are publicly available.<\/p>\n

[Note: Emptywheel goes into much greater detail<\/a><\/strong> about this matter that she describes as Durham “raising a potential conflict as a way to air his conspiracy theories so he can jack up the frothy right.”<\/em>]<\/p>\n

More to the point, what Trump calls his “fabricated connection to Russia”<\/em> is actually well documented. There is abundant evidence of the Trump campaign’s numerous unsavory connections to Russia. Much of it is catalogued in the book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. And in April of 2019, Time reported that<\/a><\/strong> “investigators have found that Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisors had more than 100 contacts between Trump associates and Russians.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s hardly something one could characterize as coincidental. But ignoring reality, Trump continued his rant saying that…<\/p>\n

“This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a pretty safe bet that Trump has no idea what the “scope and magnitude”<\/em> of Watergate was. And if he did, he would probably have supported it. Nevertheless, he is baselessly accusing Clinton and other Democrats of imaginary capital offenses. Because that’s just how vindictive and bloodthirsty he is.<\/p>\n

The timing of Durham’s specious filing, and the feigned outrage of Trump and his media shills, is curious coming so soon after the disclosures that Trump violated the Presidential Records Act<\/a><\/strong> by shredding and even flushing potentially incriminating documents<\/a><\/strong>, and scurrying off to Mar-a-Lago with fifteen boxes of materials that legally should have been turned over to the National Archives.<\/p>\n

However, it is thoroughly consistent with Trump’s lifelong pattern of misbehavior to try to supplant actual news with his own overblown concoctions. And the more desperate he is, the more despicable and delusional he becomes.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n

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Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the most wretched of Donald Trump’s loathsome personality flaws is his rancid vengefulness and compulsion with punishing anyone he deems insufficiently loyal. He has lashed out viciously at his perceived enemies, including steadfast conservative Republicans like former VP Mike Pence and Sen. 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